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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






2. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






3. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






4. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






5. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






6. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






7. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






8. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






9. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






10. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






11. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






12. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school






13. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






14. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






15. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






16. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






17. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






18. Multisensory Structured Language






19. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






20. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






21. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






22. State Board of Eduation






23. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






24. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






25. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






26. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






27. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






28. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






29. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






30. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






31. r-controlled syllable






32. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






33. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






34. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






35. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






36. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.






37. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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38. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






39. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






40. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






41. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






42. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






43. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






44. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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45. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






46. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






47. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






48. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






49. Closed syllable






50. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes